5 myths about achieving your dreams and goals
To help you better achieve your dreams and goals you need to free your mind of the myths and misconceptions about them.
These myths and misconceptions are negatively effecting you and are most likely holding you back from achieving your desired dreams and goals.
Here are 5 myths about achieving your dreams and goals.
1. Dreams = goals
The words dreams and goals are often used interchangeably, but they’re really very different. Dreams often don’t have a deadline attached to them or a plan for how to achieve them. Dreams are seen as “some day.” And goals are something that is a work in progress.
2. Continue chasing it even if you’ve lost the vigor for it
What if you turn a dream into a goal and during the pursuit of achieving it, you find you’ve lost the passion for it? Do you continue as is, even if you don’t enjoy it? I say no, but I also don’t think you should just give up. There are three options you can explore instead.
1 – Take a break – perhaps you’ve just lost steam (everyone does) and need time to recharge. That time could be anywhere from a few weeks to maybe even a few years.
2 – Evaluate the goal – figure out what it is about the goal that you don’t enjoy. Is it the hard work? If so, then you shouldn’t quit because hard work isn’t easy and you can’t escape it when achieving a goal, no matter the goal. Is it the actual goal you don’t like? Did you want to become a fashion designer but didn’t find it all that enjoyable? If so then consider the next option.
3 – Modify your goal – You might not like designing fashion but you probably still love clothes and fashion. So there are a million other ways you can pursue fashion. You could become a stylist, a trend hunter, or write about fashion. Most industries are the same way with various paths you can take so there’s no need for you to give up.
3. Deadlines can’t be changed
Every one of us has failed to achieve a goal before the deadline we set. So what are we supposed to do when that happens? Give up? No! We need to give ourselves some more time and make a new deadline. But also feel good about what we have achieved along the way, even if they’re small achievements.
4. No one should touch my dreams and goals
It’s very important that you stay in control of your dreams and goals but sometimes it’s necessary for you to hand off part of it to someone else so they can help. It’s often hard to achieve any goal without the help of others. But of course, in the end you have the most control in achieving your goals.
5. I should wait for the perfect time
The perfect time for chasing a dream; does it exist? Sure, the “perfect” time is ASAP. The perfect time is not when the kids move out, it’s not when you become rich, it’s not when the economy gets better, it’s not when you become older, it’s not past you, and it’s not really ever going to come because it’s already here.
Have you come to realize other myths and misconceptions about achieving dreams and goals? If so, please share in the comments below.
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Great article. I love to write. But I take a break from time to time to recharge my mind and enjoy life.
Hey Omar – glad you liked this article. Yeah, it’s definitely beneficial to take a break once and awhile especially when it’s something creative.
-Andrew
Good points. I would just add about not quitting because of hard work since hard work isn’t easy that it’s possible to make it easier or more bearable by trying to stimulate or motivate yourself better, causing positive feedback that would make you want to work hard and even become to an extend addicted to it.
Then it may still technically be hard work in terms of being tiring and complex perhaps, but it’s still gonna be enjoyable.
Hey Daniel – that’s also true as well. There are ways to make it more enjoyable. Thanks for sharing. And also, the most joy from hard work comes from the fruit of your labor.
-Andrew